BIDDLE v. CHATEL

Nos. 13543, 13671.

421 A.2d 3 (1980)

Livingston L. and Catharina B. BIDDLE, Appellants, v. C. Millicent CHATEL, Wise & Gilliat, Inc., et al., Appellees. C. Millicent CHATEL, Wise & Gilliat, Inc., et al., Appellants, v. Livingston L. and Catharina B. BIDDLE, Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 16, 1980.

Rehearing and Rehearing en banc Denied October 15, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. Towey, Washington, D. C., with whom Richard S. Ewing, Washington, D. C., was on the briefs, for appellants in No. 13543 and appellees in No. 13671.

Thomas Pace, Washington, D. C., with whom James F. Jordan, Washington, D. C., was on the briefs, for appellees in No. 13543 and appellants in No. 13671.

Before KELLY, GALLAGHER and HARRIS, Associate Judges.


HARRIS, Associate Judge:

This appeal arises from a dispute over alleged misrepresentations made to Livingston and Catharina Biddle concerning their right to use an alley providing access to a garage located on their then-newly-purchased Georgetown property. As plaintiffs in the trial court, the Biddles sought a declaratory judgment establishing the existence of a prescriptive easement over the alley as against Mrs. Muriel M. Yasuna, a neighbor and the titled owner...

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